From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicholas Ostler</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicholas@ostler.net">nicholas@ostler.net</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">Date: 8 March 2013 06:51<br>Subject: CFA: FEL XVII Ottawa 2013 - Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries<br>
To: <a href="mailto:n@ostler.net">n@ostler.net</a>, <a href="mailto:felcarleton2013@gmail.com">felcarleton2013@gmail.com</a><br><br>Dear FEL Members (this year and last)<br>
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Call for Abstracts: FEL XVII - Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries:<br>
Ottawa, Canada, Oct 2013<br>
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[Un appel de communications paraîtra en français à <a href="http://www.ogmios.org" target="_blank">www.ogmios.org</a>.]<br>
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The Seventeenth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages<br>
in association with Carleton University: School of Canadian Studies<br>
and School of Linguistics and Language Studies Ottawa, Canada<br>
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Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries:<br>
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Community Connections, Collaborative Approaches, and Cross-Disciplinary Research<br>
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Carleton University<br>
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br>
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Dates: 1-4 October 2013<br>
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Call for Abstracts: FEL XVII<br>
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The 2013 FEL Conference will be held in Ottawa, the capital of Canada<br>
and headquarters of the country’s national Aboriginal organizations.<br>
The many endangered Indigenous languages across Canada make it an<br>
excellent setting for a conference that will explore collaboration,<br>
community involvement, and cross-disciplinary research on endangered<br>
languages. The conference will highlight community connections,<br>
collaborative approaches, intergenerational cooperation, technological<br>
and social media related innovations, and community-researcher<br>
alliances. We seek to bring together speakers, activists, and<br>
researchers, from a range of disciplines, organizations, and<br>
governments, all striving to understand and improve the situation of<br>
endangered languages, and to broaden awareness of the importance and<br>
implications of language maintenance and revitalization for individual<br>
and community well-being overall.<br>
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Efforts world-wide to preserve, maintain, and revitalize endangered<br>
languages often encounter limited resources and funding. This points<br>
to the need for collaborative approaches and for the pooling of<br>
resources, whether on a local, national, or international scale. Such<br>
cooperative ventures extend beyond the constraints of boundaries,<br>
whether these involve linguistic or ethnic identities; geography;<br>
jurisdictions; community size, type and location (urban, rural,<br>
isolated); political or social considerations; language status<br>
(official or unofficial, dominant or minority); familial and<br>
generational ties; academic disciplines; or institutional or group<br>
affiliations.<br>
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Such barriers, and the challenges they may pose, can raise<br>
significant issues for collaborative and community-centred approaches<br>
aimed at strengthening endangered languages. For example:<br>
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· Where there are multiple dialects, should language support<br>
efforts be prioritized or focused on the more viable varieties of a<br>
particular endangered language or language group? Do endangered<br>
languages and their variants need a critical mass? Should efforts to<br>
support them lead to their coalescence despite these boundaries? On<br>
what basis should these decisions be made?<br>
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· What challenges (and compromises) are involved in<br>
decision-making related to language standardization? Should there be<br>
an effort to standardize across the dialects to establish one<br>
definitive version of a writing system?<br>
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· What collaborative approaches, such as the sharing of existing<br>
language resources, curriculum development, knowledge transfer,<br>
training and best practices, can best aid communities with critically<br>
endangered languages or dialects (e.g. providing opportunities to<br>
individuals to learn a dialect even if it is not their own)?<br>
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· What types and models of collaborative research and<br>
communication can help communities to ensure that their language<br>
perspectives and goals are integrated? For example, strictly<br>
linguistic classifications of a community’s language may differ from<br>
those based on social considerations and political boundaries.<br>
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· To what extent can existing standardized frameworks of<br>
language assessment, such as UNESCO’s Language Vitality Endangerment<br>
(LVE) Framework and Fishman’s Graded Intergenerational Disruption<br>
Scale (GIDS), help to yield comparable data? How can community-defined<br>
factors and aspects of a given community unique to it be integrated<br>
into these frameworks?<br>
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· How can surveys and data be used to develop measures and<br>
indicators in the assessment of language vitality?<br>
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· In contrast to isolated communities, the situation can be<br>
exacerbated in urban environments by the prevalence of the dominant<br>
language. How can urban language revitalization efforts be enhanced?<br>
How can people play a major role in the mainstream culture without<br>
sacrificing their endangered language and culture?<br>
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· How can people in the dominant culture and their governments<br>
be made aware of and sensitive to the issues of endangered languages?<br>
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· How can endangered language practitioners take advantage of<br>
technology to increase awareness among the mainstream about endangered<br>
languages? How can technology be used to teach and increase the use of<br>
endangered languages?<br>
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· How can generations support each other in strengthening their<br>
endangered languages? How can Elders, adults, and youth work together<br>
to develop terminology in new domains, such as technology and social<br>
media, that existing vocabulary may not cover?<br>
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· What is the importance of language learning and revitalization<br>
for individual and community well-being, health and educational<br>
outcomes?<br>
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Abstracts are invited on the following, though not limited to, kinds of topics:<br>
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· Connections within, between and among endangered language communities<br>
(Shared or different language varieties, status, identities,<br>
geography, locations)<br>
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· Connections within or between families and generations<br>
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· Collaborative approaches between communities and:<br>
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o language and cultural organizations;<br>
o university-based researchers; and,<br>
o schools, other organizations and governments<br>
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· Collaborative approaches through technology and new media<br>
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· Cross-Disciplinary (inter- and multi-disciplinary) research<br>
related to endangered languages<br>
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· International approaches to language training and revitalization<br>
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Presentations will be twenty minutes, with ten minutes for discussion<br>
and questions and answers. Keynote lectures (by invitation only) will<br>
be forty-five minutes each.<br>
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Abstract submission:<br>
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Single page abstracts of a maximum of 500 words should be submitted by<br>
the 22nd of April 2013.<br>
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Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted.<br>
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Abstracts are to be submitted for consideration in either English or French.<br>
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Once accepted, full papers can be submitted in either English or French.<br>
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If you are using special (language) fonts in your abstract submission,<br>
please make sure that they are Unicode or encoded in your pdf.<br>
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In addition to the abstract, on a separate page, please include the<br>
following information:<br>
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NAME(S): Names of the author(s)<br>
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TITLE: Title of the paper<br>
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INSTITUTION: Institutional affiliation, if any<br>
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E-MAIL: E-mail address of first author, if any<br>
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ADDRESS: Postal address of the first author<br>
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TEL: Telephone number of the first author, if any<br>
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FAX: Fax number of the first author, if any.<br>
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For submission of abstracts three methods are possible, as below:<br>
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1. EasyChair:<br>
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Authors will have to take the following steps:<br>
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- go to <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fel2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fel2013</a><br>
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- if you already have an EasyChair account you can just enter your user<br>
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name and password and log in.<br>
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- if you don't have an account, you will be redirected, or click on<br>
the link here <a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?conf=fel2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?conf=fel2013</a>,<br>
Follow the instructions and log in;<br>
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- click on 'new submission' and follow the instructions.<br>
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Type or paste your title and abstract into “Title, Abstract and Other<br>
Information” in plain text. You may also submit your abstract as a<br>
pdf file, in which case you type “see attached file” in the abstract<br>
textbox.<br>
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We shall publish more guidelines for the submission process on<br>
<a href="http://www.ogmios.org" target="_blank">http://www.ogmios.org</a><br>
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If you experience a problem with EasyChair please email for assistance<br>
at <a href="mailto:felcarleton2013@gmail.com">felcarleton2013@gmail.com</a>.<br>
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2. E-Mail:<br>
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In case you are not able to submit your abstract via EasyChair, please<br>
send your abstract with the subject of the e-mail stating: FEL<br>
Abstract: <last name of the author(s)> : <title of paper (with the<br>
other necessary details) via e-mail to the following addresses:<br>
<a href="mailto:felcarleton2013@gmail.com">felcarleton2013@gmail.com</a><br>
<a href="mailto:nicholas@ostler.net">nicholas@ostler.net</a><br>
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3. Post:<br>
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Finally, in case you are not able to submit your abstract via<br>
EasyChair or e-mail, please send your abstract and details on paper to<br>
the following address (to arrive by 22nd April, 2013):<br>
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FEL XVII Conference Administration<br>
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Foundation for Endangered Languages<br>
172 Bailbrook Lane<br>
Bath BA1 7AA<br>
United Kingdom<br>
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The name of the first author will be used in all correspondence.<br>
Submitters will be informed about their abstracts by May 15th, 2013.<br>
Those whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit their<br>
full papers for publication in the Proceedings by July 8th, 2013,<br>
together with their registration fee (to be announced soon).<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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· Abstract arrival deadline: April 22nd, 2013.<br>
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· Notification of acceptance of paper: May 15th, 2013.<br>
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· In case of acceptance, the full paper will be due by July 8th,<br>
2013. It is a condition of speaking at the conference that authors<br>
will submit a hard copy of their paper by this deadline. (Further<br>
details on the format of text will be specified to the authors.)<br>
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· Conference dates: October 1-4, 2013<br>
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Possible conference excursions and activities (to be announced)<br>
include: a pre-conference language-relevant excursion planned for the<br>
day, Tuesday, October 1st (visit to Aboriginal community - to be<br>
confirmed); reception Tuesday evening October 1st; banquet Thursday<br>
October 3rd; and possible post-conference two-day weekend trip October<br>
5th and 6th.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Nicholas Ostler<br>
<br>
<a href="mailto:nicholas@ostler.net">nicholas@ostler.net</a><br>
<a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291225-852865" value="+441225852865">+44 (0)1225-852865</a>, (0)7720-889319<br>
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Chairman: Foundation for Endangered Languages<br>
<a href="http://www.ogmios.org" target="_blank">www.ogmios.org</a><br>
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